January 16, 1847

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Features

Departments

Departments

A Corkscrew Direction

Quaint Conversations

Fable

Dry Clay Brick Press

How Mr. Jones Failed

Misapprehension Prevented

Men and Horses

A Cool Fiddler

Brief Delay of Justice

Children Returned

Church Benevolence

Coal in Mexico

Chinese Objections to Christianity

Dry Dock at Brooklyn

To be long Remembered

Gas Enterprise

Fanny and the Pope

Guessing the Weather

Washington Gossip

Iron Steamers

Land in Wisconsin

Key West

The Grave of Slavery

American Coal

Pleasing Military Indulgence

American Railroad Iron

An Artificial Man

American Deserters

Judge Fudge

Millenarism

Magnetic Telegraph

Massachusetts Oranges

A Deep Mine

The Howitzer Batteries

An odd subject for a Picture

Rapid Telegraph Writing

The Ohio Cultivator

Beware of Rejecting Ladies

Avoiding Accident

Buckwheat for coloring

To Correspondents

Great Flood in Ohio

Injudicious Notice

Wire Cutting Lever

Jackson's Patent Enunciator

Ladies Cars

The Cincinnati Brick Machine

Late from the Army

Just in Time

New Steamer

Shrink not from Toil

Still Later

The Sailor at Auction

Polish Emigrants

Chemistry

Severe Compliment

Divinity of Printing

Connecting Bars for Railroad Cars

New Inventions

A large Locomotive

A Valuable Bird

Suppression of the Smoke of Furnaces

Letter from Professor Morse

Now then

To New Subscriber

Telegraphic Despatch

Hard Words-Science and Nonsense

Terrestial Convulsions

Oppressive Restraint

We Like That

The Beauty of the Rum Business

No Sir

The Profits of Thieves

Proposed Post Office, New York

Railroad Intelligence

Trip to the Coal Mines of Virginia

Value of Smoke

India Rubber

The Great Central Railroad of Penn

Pocket-Knife Making

Peculiarities of the Chinese

Births, Marriages and Deaths

Carpenter's Tools

Ranlet's Architect

Large Business

Late Fires

Phrenology

The New City of Merrimack

Scientific Memoranda

Machine for measuring Velocity

Very Rapid

On the Electro-Chemical Protection of Metals

The proper time for Cutting Timber

Construction of Chimneys

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